The vision shrinks to the size of a nickel. Only looking at the target.

In other words, you didn't see your sights in particular situation which you found stressful.

So when you wrote (in post 55):

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Originally Posted by Constantine

You don't use the sights in a stressful situation...

you really meant, and should have written:

Quote:

I didn't use the sights in a stressful situation...

And so, you really didn't have a good basis to generalize. On the other hand, others have written here about using sights in stressful situations. And some may have more training and practice using their sights than you do.

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